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I'm your host, Benjamin Boster, and this episode is about surfing.

Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer, or two-in-tand-surfing,

uses a board to ride on the forward section or face of a moving wave of water,

which usually carries a surfer towards the shore.

Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found on ocean shores,

but can also be found as standing waves in the open ocean, in lakes,

and rivers, in the form of a tidal bore, or wave pools. Surfing includes all forms of wave

riding using a board, regardless of the stands.

The Moche of Peru would often surf on reedcraft,

while the native peoples of the Pacific surfed waves on Alaya, Pippo, and other such watercraft.

Ancient cultures often surfed on their belly and knees,

while modern-day surfing is most often stand-up surfing,

in which a surfer rides a wave while standing on a surfboard.

Another prominent form of surfing is bodyboarding,

where a surfer rides a wave on a bodyboard,

either lying on their belly, drop knee, one foot and one knee on the board, either lying on their belly, drop knee, one foot and one knee on the board, or sometimes

even standing up on a bodyboard. Other types of surfing include kneeboarding, surf matting,

riding inflatable mats, and using foils.

Body surfing in which the wave is caught and ridden, using the surfer's own body rather than a board,

is very common and is considered by some surfers to be the purest form of surfing.

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